THIRD LANDSCAPE
Site-specific Installation
Gender Project, Altemunze, Berlin, 2022
Site-specific Installation
Gender Project, Altemunze, Berlin, 2022
The site-specific installation Third Landscape unveils a laundry line of imaginary characters from 20th-century Italian queer literature—voices often silenced or forgotten. Laundry, an intimate and domestic ritual, becomes a quiet act of defiance when exposed in public. As in Palermo, 1992, when white sheets mourned Giovanni Falcone’s death. As in Genoa, 2001, during the infamous G8. As in Como, 1969, with Giovanni Pettena’s installation.
Here, laundry marks a new topography—a third landscape of social margins, as Gilles Clément described. A subtle act of protest that uses intimacy and vulnerability as a weapon. Each bed sheet carries a single, sewn letter—the first of an imagined name. The characters acquire a bodily presence and are recognized as human beings by performing simple gestures such as their laundry.
- Celestino - Aldo Palazzeschi, I Fratelli Cuccoli (1948)
- Gigi - Pier Vittorio Tondelli, Altri Libertini (1980)
- Erik - Pier Vittorio Tondelli, Pao Pao (1982)
- Nora - Amalia Guglielminetti, La Rivincita del Maschio (1923)
- Fofo - Aldo Palazzeschi, I Fratelli Cuccoli (1948)
- don Gonzalo - Caro Emilio Gadda, La Cognizione del Dolore (1963)
- Teresa - Aldo Palazzeschi, Sorelle Materassi (1934)
Characters collected by Luca Starita in Canone Ambiguo, effequ (2021).
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Here, laundry marks a new topography—a third landscape of social margins, as Gilles Clément described. A subtle act of protest that uses intimacy and vulnerability as a weapon. Each bed sheet carries a single, sewn letter—the first of an imagined name. The characters acquire a bodily presence and are recognized as human beings by performing simple gestures such as their laundry.
- Celestino - Aldo Palazzeschi, I Fratelli Cuccoli (1948)
- Gigi - Pier Vittorio Tondelli, Altri Libertini (1980)
- Erik - Pier Vittorio Tondelli, Pao Pao (1982)
- Nora - Amalia Guglielminetti, La Rivincita del Maschio (1923)
- Fofo - Aldo Palazzeschi, I Fratelli Cuccoli (1948)
- don Gonzalo - Caro Emilio Gadda, La Cognizione del Dolore (1963)
- Teresa - Aldo Palazzeschi, Sorelle Materassi (1934)
Characters collected by Luca Starita in Canone Ambiguo, effequ (2021).
